HASS - Above satisfactory - Year 1
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can identify and describe with detail important dates and changes in the student’s own life (WS5, WS6). The student explains how specific aspects of daily life have changed over recent time while others …
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Communications timeline – ABOVE
Students sequenced teacher-provided images of different forms of communication, from oldest to newest, along a timeline. The teacher then questioned the students about the choices they made. The question, along with a transcript of the student’s answer, …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can demonstrate control and use well-developed movement and expressive skills (WS1). The student can perform their own choreography and lead a dance partner in a dance performance (WS2). They can …
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The Arts: Drama - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can maintain focus and demonstrate sustained choices in role with some aspects of character in a class performance. They can improvise and use movement to represent a range of situations; and show …
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The Arts: Music - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can perform in a small class ensemble and compose music using graphic notation (WS1). It also shows that the student can sing a learned melody, compose music, and sing, or sing and play, from a simple …
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Design and Technologies - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments (WS1, WS2, WS3). The student identifies the features …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can identify how common digital systems (hardware and software) are used to meet specific purposes (WS4). The student uses digital systems to represent simple patterns in data in different ways (WS1, …
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The Arts: Media Arts - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can use technical elements from the process of stop motion animation to complete an artwork with good consideration to composition (WS1). The student can give reason for making a media artwork (WS1) …
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The Arts: Visual Arts - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse and respond to artworks they have made or viewed (WS1, WS2) and experiment with different materials and techniques to create artworks that communicate meaning (WS2).
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 1 and 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can recognise and illustrate changes that occur as people age, and can identify activities that change with increasing age (WS3). They can recognise personal factors that shape their personal identity …
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Class Performance: Under the sea – Above
During the course of a term, students participated in an annual musical theatre production as an integrated unit that developed their skills across Dance, Drama and Music. The theme was ‘under the sea’ and the Year 2 students collaborated with Year 6 …
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Art response: Leaving home - ABOVE
Students engaged in responding to the subject matter and narrative in Aboriginal Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup’s woodcut print, Leaving home. They were also required to analyse elements such as shape, the artist’s choice to exclude colour, and the technique …
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Class performance: Jimmie Jean and the Turtles - ABOVE
Students studied the Great Barrier Reef in an integrated unit that involved English, Science and The Arts. They developed their understanding of sustainability and conservation in relation to the reef by artistically exploring the narrative of the stimulus …
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Written response: Life changes - ABOVE
Students listened to a story about children growing and changing and discussed the physical characteristics and different roles of characters in the book. Using a range of different images of people, students were asked to place them in order of age and …
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Pairs: Seasons - Above
Students made and responded to dance by exploring seasons as a stimulus in a short unit of work. They also individually choreographed a dance to represent their chosen season. They were guided through the process of developing movements to represent a …
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